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My Ivy League Sailor

Updated April 7, 2003 12:01 a.m. ET

In 1969, my Ivy League sailor (University of Pennsylvania, 1964), volunteered for the submarine service. At a time when friends and colleagues were scrambling for deferments or exemptions, my husband was serving as the medical officer on a Polaris submarine.

After three years of active duty, Lt. Nelson Wolf became Dr. Wolf again, but with some changes. He began wearing the dolphins, the symbol of the submarine service, on his white...